Internet
A week after indefinitely suspending President Donald Trump's Snapchat account, the social network has confirmed it has permanently banned him.
Jan 14, 2021
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Encrypted messaging apps Signal and Telegram are seeing huge upticks in downloads from Apple and Google's app stores. Facebook-owned WhatsApp, by contrast, is seeing its growth decline following a fiasco that forced the company ...
Jan 14, 2021
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Business
Accelerating the transition to an ever more digital life, the coronavirus pandemic has tightened tech giants' grip on billions of customers' lives.
Dec 16, 2020
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Internet
A Google-funded report examines the relationship between white supremacists and the internet, but it makes scant reference—all of it positive—to YouTube, the company's platform that many experts blame more than any other ...
Dec 15, 2020
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Internet
Facebook on Thursday said it is revising its systems to prioritize blocking slurs against Black people, gays and other groups historically targeted by hateful vitriol, no longer automatically filtering out barbs aimed broadly ...
Dec 3, 2020
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Business
The European Union will unveil major proposals to regulate Big Tech next month, in what could force a revolution in the way Google or Facebook do business.
Nov 24, 2020
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Internet
Facebook Inc. said it labeled 167 million user posts this year for including information about COVID-19 that was "debunked" by the social network's fact-checkers.
Nov 23, 2020
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Internet
Facebook said Thursday it has made progress in curbing hate speech and other abusive content on its platform with improved automated tools complementing its human reviewers.
Nov 19, 2020
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Internet
Facebook has come under withering criticism this past year from folks who say the company is not doing enough to stem hate speech, online harassment and the spread of false news stories.
Business
Facebook's profit jumped in the recently-ended quarter as the leading social network benefitted from a rebounding online ad market despite a boycott, the company reported Thursday.
Oct 30, 2020
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